[arch-general] pacman bug? (can't replace dir with file)

[Jan de Groot]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:08 +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files)
> test: /test exists in filesystem

I think it has to do something with this:
[jan at server ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/vte
error: cannot determine ownership of a directory

The point with directories is that there's no real ownership, as lots of
packages can store files in such a location. Now, what would have
happened if your directory on the filesystem contained files not
belonging to the package that is upgraded?